Towards a new generation of agricultural system data, models and knowledge products: Information and communication technology.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural modeling has long suffered from fragmentation in model implementation. Many models are developed, there is much redundancy, models are often poorly coupled, model component re-use is rare, and it is frequently difficult to apply models to generate real solutions for the agricultural sector. To improve this situation, we argue that an open, self-sustained, and committed community is required to co-develop agricultural models and associated data and tools as a common resource. Such a community can benefit from recent developments in information and communications technology (ICT). We examine how such developments can be leveraged to design and implement the next generation of data, models, and decision support tools for agricultural production systems. Our objective is to assess

SUBMITTER: Janssen SJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5485661 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature